It’s not odd to experience a first crush or to grow frustrated at the strange stage between child and adulthood, but because the media lacks such depictions, girlhood is seen as abnormal.
When given a platform to educate teens about their bodies and sexuality, teachers need to be thoughtful and exceedingly knowledgeable. Everything they say — or don’t say — when teaching the subject matters a great deal.
Sexual assault is an issue prevalent on college campuses across the nation, and the phenomenon is worsening in recent years.
Despite a number of initiatives working to prevent sexual assault, the...
A more progressive sex education curriculum is not political. This is not a case where progressive ideas automatically translate to left-wing policies. This is a matter of people’s daily lives, their safety and their self-esteem. The work we do now to make students represented in their learning is a step in the right direction for all education.
In a world full of shows such as “Skins” and “Gossip Girl,” entertainment targeted toward teenagers paints high school as a place full of beautiful people and effortless, casual sex. Netflix’s...
Sexual assault is a buzzworthy topic for college students in 2016. As soon as I was accepted to Boston University, I was made to think that my university was doing everything it could to prevent cases...
As students, nearly all of us have been through the much-dreaded-but-entirely-necessary entity that is middle school Health and Sexual Education Class. We sat awkwardly in rows beside the classmates we...
YouTube personality and San Francisco-based sex education activist Laci Green, in conjunction with the Wellness and Prevention Services at Boston University’s Student Health Services, hosted an event...
Most American students have had some level of sexual health education in high school, but Clemson University in South Carolina has demanded that all of its students participate in an online Title IX Training...
